1.   A bag lady with a shopping cart was picking through the garbage for aluminum cans.

2.   I loved to pick through trash piles and collect empty bottles, tin cans with Pretty labels, and discarded magazines.

3.   They pick through trash, poke through mail and tap into sophisticated computer databases in search of the elusive money trail.

4.   Rescue workers are picking through the ruins, looking for survivors.

5.   Police are still picking through the rubble looking for clues to the cause of the explosion.

6.   The dispirited family picked through the flotsam of their possessions after the hurricane, looking for anything that could be salvaged.

7.   And federal officials looking for more qualified people for full-time positions started picking through the seasonal workers on the books.

8.   Ariel Prieto has a pretty good story to tell, but for now everybody is left to pick through the notes in the margin.